Breathing Room with Clordene https://breathingroompodcast.podbean.com Faith-driven entrepreneurs are told to hustle harder and trust God more, often in the same breath. This show holds space for both.

Breathing Room with Clordene is for builders, leaders, and creatives who are tired of choosing between their calling and their capacity. Each week I sit down with guests who have hit the wall and rebuilt, alongside honest solo reflections, to talk about what it really takes to grow something meaningful without running yourself empty.

Expect real conversations about purpose, identity, and the practical work of building a business or a calling, paired with the kind of encouragement that gives you permission to slow down before you break down.

This show grew out of my devotional, Breathing Room for My Soul, written for women running on empty. This is where that conversation keeps going, for everyone building something that matters.

Faith, work, and room to breathe. New episodes weekly.

]]> Sat, 27 Jun 2026 20:14:40 -0300 https://podbean.com/?v=5.5 en Copyright 2026 All rights reserved. Business:Entrepreneurship 1440 episodic breathingroompodcast breathingroompodcast No false https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/22426948/New2.png Breathing Room with Clordene https://breathingroompodcast.podbean.com 144 144 The Myth of the Superwoman The Myth of the Superwoman https://breathingroompodcast.podbean.com/e/the-myth-of-the-superwoman/ https://breathingroompodcast.podbean.com/e/the-myth-of-the-superwoman/#comments Sat, 27 Jun 2026 20:14:40 -0300 breathingroompodcast.podbean.com/09b952b1-b127-3d4c-9d1d-2828c52bf32b Nobody told me the Superwoman cape was actually a straitjacket. I put it on at thirteen, the year my skin began to change, learning to act fine before anyone could be unkind, and I didn't take it off for thirty years. This episode is an honest talk about the impossible standard we measure ourselves against as driven women, what the cape really costs you, and how to start setting it down, one small thing, one safe person, at a time. Because letting go of the Superwoman myth isn't lowering your standards. It's trading a performance for a partnership.

In this episode:

  • Who the Superwoman really is, and why she's impossible on purpose
  • My first cape: learning to perform fine at thirteen
  • What the cape costs you, and the one tell that you're wearing it
  • How to start taking it off without panicking and pulling it back on

Reflection prompt:

Name one thing you’ve been pretending you’re fine at that you really aren’t. Write it somewhere only you can see it. That’s the whole first move.

Purchase the devotional using the link below

Breathing Room for My Soul Devotional

]]> Nobody told me the Superwoman cape was actually a straitjacket. I put it on at thirteen, the year my skin began to change, learning to act fine before anyone could be unkind, and I didn't take it off for thirty years. This episode is an honest talk about the impossible standard we measure ourselves against as driven women, what the cape really costs you, and how to start setting it down, one small thing, one safe person, at a time. Because letting go of the Superwoman myth isn't lowering your standards. It's trading a performance for a partnership.

In this episode:

  • Who the Superwoman really is, and why she's impossible on purpose
  • My first cape: learning to perform fine at thirteen
  • What the cape costs you, and the one tell that you're wearing it
  • How to start taking it off without panicking and pulling it back on

Reflection prompt:

Name one thing you’ve been pretending you’re fine at that you really aren’t. Write it somewhere only you can see it. That’s the whole first move.

Purchase the devotional using the link below

Breathing Room for My Soul Devotional

]]> Nobody told me the Superwoman cape was actually a straitjacket. I put it on at thirteen, the year my skin began to change, learning to act fine before anyone could be unkind, and I didn’t take it off for thirty years. This episode is an honest talk about the impossible standard we measure ourselves against as driven women, what the cape really costs you, and how to start setting it down, one small thing, one safe person, at a time. Because letting go of the Superwoman myth isn’t lowering your standards. It’s trading a performance for a partnership. breathingroompodcast false No 1067 1 3 full When Your Identity Lives in Your Output When Your Identity Lives in Your Output https://breathingroompodcast.podbean.com/e/when-your-identity-lives-in-your-output/ https://breathingroompodcast.podbean.com/e/when-your-identity-lives-in-your-output/#comments Thu, 18 Jun 2026 03:24:37 -0300 breathingroompodcast.podbean.com/551680dc-fc1e-3f30-b0fd-3f52ae2bfbb3 For sixteen years, Clordene was a voice on the radio. It was the perfect place to hide a body she had spent two decades afraid to have seen. But when she left that career, she discovered the cost of fusing your identity to your output: the day the work stops, you find out whether there was a you underneath it. This episode defines what burnout actually looks like for driven women, names the identity fusion most of us were trained into, traces how it moved from Clordene’s schedule into her body, and offers a way back, three moves from fused to free.

 

In this episode:

  • What burnout actually is (and the disguise it wears for driven women)
  • Identity fusion: how your worth gets wired to your work, and the one tell that you are fused
  • Clordene’s story: the voice that hid the body, and the day it stopped
  • From fused to free: Catch it. Separate it. Re-anchor it.

Reflection prompt:

Write three things that are true about who you are that have nothing to do with what you accomplish. 

]]> For sixteen years, Clordene was a voice on the radio. It was the perfect place to hide a body she had spent two decades afraid to have seen. But when she left that career, she discovered the cost of fusing your identity to your output: the day the work stops, you find out whether there was a you underneath it. This episode defines what burnout actually looks like for driven women, names the identity fusion most of us were trained into, traces how it moved from Clordene’s schedule into her body, and offers a way back, three moves from fused to free.

 

In this episode:

  • What burnout actually is (and the disguise it wears for driven women)
  • Identity fusion: how your worth gets wired to your work, and the one tell that you are fused
  • Clordene’s story: the voice that hid the body, and the day it stopped
  • From fused to free: Catch it. Separate it. Re-anchor it.

Reflection prompt:

Write three things that are true about who you are that have nothing to do with what you accomplish. 

]]> breathingroompodcast false No 1135 1 2 full Why Building Something You Believe in Still Leaves You Empty Why Building Something You Believe in Still Leaves You Empty https://breathingroompodcast.podbean.com/e/why-building-something-you-believe-in-still-leaves-you-empty/ https://breathingroompodcast.podbean.com/e/why-building-something-you-believe-in-still-leaves-you-empty/#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:48:05 -0300 breathingroompodcast.podbean.com/1eee341a-cec3-393f-8121-b7873d78c436 When everything looked like it was working, I was running on empty.

In this episode I share the story behind the show, and behind a season when the work was good, the calling was real, and I still found myself completely depleted. I had been pouring out of a cup that nobody was filling, including me, and calling it faithfulness.

I unpack the lie so many of us absorb without ever being taught it directly: that rest is something you earn once the work is finished. The trouble is the work is never finished, so the rest never comes. We keep building, holier and emptier at the same time, mistaking exhaustion for devotion. But being empty is not a spiritual achievement.

This episode is about noticing that pattern before it breaks you, and about the truth that quietly sets you free. You don't have to sacrifice your faith to succeed, and you don't have to sacrifice yourself to build something that matters. Sustainable work needs both ambition and rest.

This week's breathing room: notice one place where you're running on fumes, and doing it anyway. Don't fix it yet. Just name it. Awareness is where breathing room begins.

The devotional that started it all, Breathing Room for My Soul, is linked below.

Faith, work, and room to breathe.

In this episode: 00:00 Introduction to Breathing Room 02:59 The struggle of balancing work and well-being 05:53 Understanding burnout and the need for rest

Resources: Breathing Room for My Soul (the devotional): Breathing Room for My Soul

 

 

 

 

Purchase Book

]]> When everything looked like it was working, I was running on empty.

In this episode I share the story behind the show, and behind a season when the work was good, the calling was real, and I still found myself completely depleted. I had been pouring out of a cup that nobody was filling, including me, and calling it faithfulness.

I unpack the lie so many of us absorb without ever being taught it directly: that rest is something you earn once the work is finished. The trouble is the work is never finished, so the rest never comes. We keep building, holier and emptier at the same time, mistaking exhaustion for devotion. But being empty is not a spiritual achievement.

This episode is about noticing that pattern before it breaks you, and about the truth that quietly sets you free. You don't have to sacrifice your faith to succeed, and you don't have to sacrifice yourself to build something that matters. Sustainable work needs both ambition and rest.

This week's breathing room: notice one place where you're running on fumes, and doing it anyway. Don't fix it yet. Just name it. Awareness is where breathing room begins.

The devotional that started it all, Breathing Room for My Soul, is linked below.

Faith, work, and room to breathe.

In this episode:
00:00 Introduction to Breathing Room
02:59 The struggle of balancing work and well-being
05:53 Understanding burnout and the need for rest

Resources:
Breathing Room for My Soul (the devotional): Breathing Room for My Soul

 

 

 

 

Purchase Book

]]> breathingroompodcast false No 459 1 full Trailer Trailer https://breathingroompodcast.podbean.com/e/trailer/ https://breathingroompodcast.podbean.com/e/trailer/#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:30:47 -0300 breathingroompodcast.podbean.com/1adfdc40-5dbf-3d6c-958a-06e3dc02a0bb What Breathing Room is and Who it is for.

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